This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Mine your own precious stones.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The smallest country in the world.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.